"A very large number of Palestinians do not have direct access to their recommended specialized health care due to Israeli movement restrictions, even to Palestinian hospitals in Jerusalem which have served the population for half a century.”

"To the fullest extent of the means available to it, the occupying power must ensure sufficient hygiene and public health standards, as well as the provision of food and medical care to the population under occupation."
This is international humanitarian law. Politics is not the cancer patients' fault.

Maybe if they stopped buying rockets and bombs and ceased building terror tunnels, they could build their own hospitals and not rely on Israel to treat their sick.......such hypocrisy......they spend their time trying to murder innocent Israelis but then expect the Israeli hospitals to treat their sick.......!!!

“My husband left for Germany nine months ago. He went back into Syria and through Daesh territory, walking through the desert for three days to Turkey. From Turkey the journey was horrifying, as he got in a small boat which capsized. Most of those in the boat died, he was the only one who survived.”

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"When the power goes off, the cardiac monitors and the artificial respiration machines by which the two babies can struggle to survive stop working. This means that they might die in less than five minutes."

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This Thursday there is a rare opportunity for people in the UK to hear directly from Dr Yasser Abu Jamei, head of the Gaza Community Mental Health Programme - GCMHP برنامج غزة للصحة النفسية about Gaza's ongoing mental health crisis.

Briefing is at 2pm at the Arab British Centre (London), Thursday 8 December. Places are limited so please RSVP to Joesph Willits (willitsj@caabu.org) at Caabu.

UN Coordinator for Humanitarian Aid and Development Activities Robert Piper said: “This is about freedom of movement at its most raw level – the right to access, literally, life-saving services for you, or an elderly parent or perhaps an infant child.”

MAP CEO Tony Laurance on why an end to the blockade should be an international priority:

"As Israel's blockade approaches its tenth anniversary, Gaza's infrastructure continues to crumble. Basic services such as electricity and clean water are more scarce than ever, and it is the most vulnerable groups in society who are suffering the most."

The following link suggests that you have spent £5,000,000 on medical supplies. Some sort of breakdown would be useful? EG how much in Gaza/Judea-Samaria? How much on equipment/antibiotics/vaccines etc? [ Charitycommission.gov.uk Link ]

Jana Jihad, Palestine's 10-year-old journalist, covers the impact of checkpoints and road closures on access to healthcare (for her grandmother) in the occupied Palestinian territory:

"Tonight my grandmother was so much tired she had an open heart and kidney failure and she need to be in the hospital 3 times a week dialysis
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The world is not allowed to see what s happening in Gaza..pro zionist media and Governments make sure they toe the Israel Lobby line....and shame themselves and all of us, who care about justice and freedom!

Walls for palestrina refugees , walls in israel, walls to keep mexicans out, gated communities to keep the poor out It will soon be like the "hunger games" the privileged in their Ivory towers (Trump Towers) and the rest of us relegated to walled in districts supplying the rich.

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"Israeli authorities repeatedly refused to allow a Palestinian man from the Gaza Strip to receive medical treatment in the West Bank, denying his travel permit on security grounds, despite the fact that he has been in a coma for over a month."